Fall 1986
Fall 1986
An issue of Ploughshares from Fall 1986, guest-edited by Charles Simic. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles.
This classic poetry issue, with select nonfiction, is guest-edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Simic, and features the work of a number of masters including Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Karr, Philip Levine, Thomas Lux, Franz Wright, Al Young, and Stephen Dobyns. This issue also contains the nonfiction work by Mark Strand, Fanny Howe, William Corbett, and Richard Jackson.
Nonfiction
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The New Selected William Carlos Williams
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Secondary Indifferents
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Many Happy Returns: The Poetry of John Ashbery
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Why I Like Certain Poems More Than Others
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Narrative Poetry
Poetry
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Then
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The Fourth Grade
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This Garden
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The Power of Bridges
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After the Grand Perhaps
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Ten Years' Apprenticeship in Fantasy
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Philip Guston 1913-1980
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blue wing
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Little Foot
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The Children
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The Day the World Ends
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Boneyard
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The Theory
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The Tree
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The Breast
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Snowstorm
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'Richard'
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Tango
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Stazione
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The Lynched Man
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With the Dog at Sunrise
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Staying at Grandma's
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Cows in Snow
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Picture Postcard from the Other World
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On Visiting Herbert Hoover's Birth and Burial Place
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Old Man Shovelling Snow
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Kwashiorkor, Marasmus
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Ultima Thule
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A Seasonal Record
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Self-Knowledge
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Schoolboys with Dog, Winter
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Annunciation
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Taking Pleasure
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To the Muse
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Sex
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Bird on Bough
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The Safecracker
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At Xian
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Whatever the Weather
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Remembering Anna
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Education
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Who Sweeps the Sidewalk
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Nothing But Heart
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Sheep in Wales
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North Platte: August 1968
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The Convex
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Blue Lights
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Oyster Bar on the Road to Mururua
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'Dr. No' for New Year's, At the Hotel Irazu
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S.D.I.
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Poem
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Aunt Sophie's Morning
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Thirst
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Ensenada Maternity Ward
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November, Mesnil-en-Thelle
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Cant
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Religious Thought
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Anger
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Blame
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New Car
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from A Journal of the Year of the Ox
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Winter Entries
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The Talk
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from 22 Moon Poems
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Night
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Saint Francis